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May 18 20191:00pm–8:00pm

FREE/GRATIS

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Queens Public Library, Corona: 1-7pm
38-23 104th St
Corona, NY 11368

¡CORÓNATE! at Corona Plaza: 1-8pm40-04 National St
Corona NY, 11368

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas at Queens Museum, this day-long festival at Queens Public Library, Corona will explore science fiction through art making, performances, technology, comics and zine workshops, virtual reality demonstrations, and opportunities for locals to meet and interact with noted science fiction authors and practicing scientists. The community festival will also extend outdoors to Corona Plaza for ¡CORÓNATE! with live music, an immersive performance, hands-on activities, games, and storytelling. Attendees can become their own superhero or embark on a space exploration voyage guided by performance artists!

1-2pmStory Time for Families (storytelling in Spanish and English)Kids and families are invited to start the day by being transported into the worlds of space travel, friendly aliens, robots, and more.

1-3pmIMOX Virtual Reality Experiencewith Frisly Soberanis and Kenia Guillen(facilitation will be bilingual: Spanish and English)IMOX (ee-moh-sh) is a 360 immersive experience where participants embody a water droplet through its migration journey while it crosses the desert and encounters hostility at a man-made border. Leaning on the memory of our origins as rivers and oceans, we call upon our histories to help us defy man-made forces of adversity that disrupt our journey. Created by Mehtap Aydin, Sultan Barodawala, Marco Castro, Leslie Martinez, Peter Pa, Jess X Snow, Frisly Soberanis.

1-4pmSci-Fi Special Effects Makeup Demo with Joseph DrobezkoJoin internationally recognized makeup artist Joseph Drobezko as he transforms a model into a custom science fiction character over the course of the afternoon!

2-4pmLa Borinqueña: Creating an Icon and a MovementComics workshop with Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez(workshop will be bilingual: Spanish and English)Join celebrated graphic novelist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez as he leads you through a behind the scenes workshop of creating his iconographic character La Borinqueña. Via this session attendees will learn the creative process of producing a graphic novel from conceptualization to national movement. Sabrina Cintron, a comics artist and illustrator working with Somos Arte will be doing live drawing demonstrations during the workshop.
La Borinqueña bios can be found here.

2-4pmMeet the Astronomer talks: Learn about supermassive black holes, decolonizing galaxy evolution, stellar nurseries, and extragalactic star formation. Each astronomer will give a 20-25 min talk (in order of appearance), followed by Q&A.Translation service and equipment will be provided in English and Spanish.

3-5pmCoronanauts Space Flight: Costume-making workshop led by Greg Corbino with Francisca Benitez, and Jessica Santos.(workshop will be bilingual: Spanish and English)Check-in to the Intergalactic Travel Agency and build your own Coronanaut costume! Participants will be invited aboard the first ever Intergalactic space flight from Corona. Participants take-off from Corona Library at 5pm and travel to Corona Plaza. There they will board an empanada-inspired spaceship and join the immersive Coronanauts Space Flight experience!

4-6pmMeet the Author readings and talks: Each author will give a 20-25 min talk or reading based on their work in science fiction and fantasy (in order of appearance), followed by Q&A.Translation service and equipment will be provided in English and Spanish.

4-6pmLatinx Sci-Fi Zine Workshop by Mujeristas Collective(workshop will be bilingual: Spanish and English)Using prepared zine templates and collage materials, participants are invited to make their own short story illustrating what their world would look like if they had the power to create an alternate reality.

5-7pm (repeat program)IMOX Virtual Reality Experiencewith Frisly SoberanisandJess X. Snow(facilitation will be bilingual: Spanish and English)IMOX (ee-moh-sh), a 360 immersive experience as we embody a water droplet through its migration journey while it crosses the desert and encounters hostility at an unnatural border. Leaning on the memory of our origins as rivers and oceans, we call upon our histories to help us defy man-made forces of adversity that disrupts our journey. Created by Mehtap Aydin, Sultan Barodawala, Marco Castro, Leslie Martinez, Peter Pa, Jess X Snow, Frisly Soberanis.

¡CORÓNATE! at Corona Plaza1-8pm

SCHEDULE:

1:00-5:00pmFun for all Ages! Activities and Dance Performances in the Plaza

Piñata Making

Crochet and Embroidery with BordeAndo’s BordeLandia

Outdoor Games Station

Face Painting

Story Time

Astrology readings

1:00-5:00pmAdaptation Battlebots: Join Science Friday and Skype a Scientist to build your own Franken-animal!Join Science Friday and Skype a Scientist to build your own Franken-animal! What adaptations will help you create an unstoppable new animal fit for battle? Make your own paper puppet and find out, with help from local scientists, as we pit the new creatures in the ring!

2:30-3pmMusic Performance by Milagro VerdeThis hardcore chicha band kicks off an afternoon of Latinx music and dance with the rhythms of Peru!

3:30-3:45pmPerformance: The Chankas of PeruLa Danza de las Tijeras or the Scissors Dance is an ancestral dance from the south of the Andes, in Peru. The customs of the dancers are stamped by colors of nature and images of the sun, the moon, animals and the artist name of the dancer. The dancers, called Danzaq, perform difficult stunts, steps and leaps, called “Atipanacuy” (challenge), accompanied by the music of a violin, a harp and the sound of the scissors they hold in their hands.

4:15-5pmMusic Performance by STEFA*A vocal artist born, raised and currently living in Queens, STEFA* constructs gorgeous and densely layered vocal music. Inspired by STEFA*’s family and secrets that are still only partially revealed, her recent LP Sepalina tells the tale of a native alien and how she came to inhabit this planet, washed up on shore in the present, stripped of her memories and her language.

5:00 – 5:15Performance: Chinelos de MorelosChinelos are a kind of traditional costumed dancer which is popular in the Mexican state of Morelos. The tradition arose from the blending of indigenous and Catholic traditions, most notably Carnival, with its permission to be masked and to mock. The hats have pre-Hispanic images and modern interpretations of ancient myths.

5:15-5:45pmCoronanauts Space Flight: Immersive performance led by Greg Corbino with Francisca Benitez, Jessica Santos, and Alicia Gerstein. (performance will be bilingual: Spanish and English)A band of costumed astronauts will be arriving from Queens Library, Corona to embark on the Coronanauts Space Flight in an empanada-inspired spaceship! Kids are invited to join the voyage or watch the intergalactic performance unfold! Will the spaceship survive a hungry alien? And how will the Coronanauts find their way back to Corona Plaza?

6:00-7:00pmDJ Elkin Elkin Pautt, producer/composer, is the musical director of DelSonido. He is from Barranquilla, Colombia, and currently resides in Brooklyn. He is dedicated to discovering new sounds from the marriage of traditional Colombian music and other modern genres

7-7:45pmMusic Performance: C.A.M.P.O.SCumbias And More Psychedelic Original Sounds or C.A.M.P.O.S. is a project byJoshua Camp (Chicha Libre, Locobeach, One Ring Zero). Cumbias, and more specifically the psychedelic era of cumbias peruanas, are the beating heart of the band’s sound. Add the vintage sci-fi film score sounds of Bernard Herrmann and Giorgio Moroder, the western and circus soundtracks of Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota, with the production style of the Latin Playboys, and the musical mission statement of the group begins to take shape.

Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas brings together contemporary artists from across the Americas who have tapped into science fiction’s capacity to imagine new realities. Artists explore the colonial enterprise that has shaped the Americas and present alternative perspectives speculating on the past and the future. In the works featured in the exhibition, the imagery of science fiction is employed to suggest diverse modes of existence and represent “alienating” ways of being in the world. This Science Fiction Festival is one of several satellite programs and installations at partner institutions throughout New York City.

Mundos Alternos was organized by and first exhibited at UCR ARTS at the University of California, Riverside. The traveling iteration at the Queens Museum is organized by Hitomi Iwasaki, Director of Exhibitions and Curator at Queens Museum, and Joanna Szupinska-Myers, Senior Curator at the California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTS.